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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers, when...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
9) Blackbirds singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's substantive introductions provide rich new context for each woman's speech, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice"--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
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Publisher
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Language
English
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Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air (not to mention a handsome face), Jane discovers his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails which echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield Hall, unaware of...